Sentence examples similar to a startling surface from inspiring English sources
On a startling white surface crazed with faultlines that intermittently creak open to form treacherous ravines, women in bright frocks disport themselves, scrub floors, gather potatoes, lie flat to observe the stars and knit ridiculously long scarves.
Ultrarealistic, it conveys the ravages of time with startling surface detail.
So much for startling surfaces.
A startling photograph has surfaced showing Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey grinning while frisking a black man who has his hands up and is facing a wall.
She sobs--a startling, terrible sound.
Its surface is a startling, vividly coloured landscape of erupting volcanic vents, pools and solidified flows of lava, and deposits of sulfur and sulfur compounds.
Each scoop functions as a grotesquely large brush stroke, while the surface also bears a startling resemblance to strawberry ice cream.
On the surface this is a startling development.
His rough, improvised surfaces almost invariably conveyed a startling openness and vulnerability.
The major antigenic component of this virus is a surface-membrane-inserted glycoprotein (gp120), which has a startling rate of mutation.
In 1996, workmen widening the Jerusalem Tel Aviv road made a startling discovery: signs of a Roman mosaic pavement were found about three feet below the modern ground surface.
